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Newspaper Page Text— ESTABLISHED IN 1854 ; rY C. W. HANCOCK.' INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, L1TEBATUBE SCIENCE. AND GENERAL PROGRESS Terms: $2 A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOL. 31. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1884. NO. 44. 4ffr*calUir*« Ur* Stock, Cnrrcnt Ercnu, HrrlM*. Larges*, and aUeststaff of editors and contributors. Vat 3 cents to pay actual return postage - we send sample and tul* — *•— of each inf? jou how to mate a f< we send sample ShtSSJuSSSUrt.. foa bow io make a fortune by represen- : our Interest In connection with this pa- and its premiums those marvelous little volumes. The Pocket Manuel, '-Inquire Within,” Nos 1,2,3, and 4, and the great book of the century, the Americas Eoms and Fann OydopMlla The package mailed and attention given very applicant who answers this advertiso- lent, coat* us 22c., so we ask you to givens your name, address, age, business expe rience If any and name reference. 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At night can be found at residence at the Taylor house, on Umar street. • ’•Us will receive prompt attention. m%y28-tf Or. D. P HOLLOWAY. DentisT, Am«rion«. - - - Georgia Treatssuccessfully all diseases of the Den Ul organs. Fills teetn oj me '.approved method, and Inserts artificial teeth on COMPRISES FOUR PREPARATIONS. LIVER, HEART AND KIDNEY TONIC, For indigestion, Palpitation, etc., from torpid liver and inactive kidneys. DIARRHOEA MIXTURE, For Diarrhoea, Dysentery. Ac., of chil dren and adults. BLOOD PURIFIER, For Scrofula. Goitre, Syphiles and Skin Diseases from Impure blood. BRAIN TONIC, For Sjxasms, common Convulsions and Ep- medicine will not cure all dl» but these preparations will do exactly what is said of them. Manufactured by Wkstmorxland, Gbif- niv A Co., Atlanta, Ga., and sold by drug, gists generally. nov28-wAsw-3m TWO CRUTCHES Law Notice From and after this date B. B. Hinton and Edgar F. Hinton will be associated to gether in the practice of law. The partner- chip will be confined to the practice l< Sum ter county. The practice In ad Joining coun ties will be separate and distinct. The Junior member will visit parties In the county when desired by client without ex- v „.— tra charge. Special attention given to the Nervous Rheumatism, collection of claims. oct28tf Fillmore Brown. Edgerton House Opposite Passenger Depot, MACON, GEORGIA. E. 2. Browa & Son, Proprietors Rate* fS.OO Per Day. LOOKOUT to state that I have been confined to my bed for two months with what was called Nervous Rheumatism, or Sciatica. I was only enabled to hobble ab-rat occasionally by the use of crutches, and in this condition 1 commenced the use of B. B. B four bottles * which enabled me to discard the use of —j crutches and attend to business. I bad previously rued all well recommended medi cines without relief. It has been over two months since using B. B. B and I consider myself a permanently cured maa. J. P. DAVIS,AtiantaGa., (West End.) M. A. Abbey, of Kuaselvllle, Ark., date June 8th, 1884; “At last I have found a honest remedy. B. B. B. Is the best Bloc Poison remedy on earth, and If I had a voice that would reach from Atlar* *- **- I would proclaim its virtue- only four bottles, and J. I MONEY We Must Have! else they will be p»aced In the hands of officer! for collection. We mean wbat w» J. W. SHEFFIELD A CO. gfilEHg WM £SU?. ggsgg l.rti*™. No- 30 Broadway. N. Y. ■■■■■■■■ mATENTS,^^ ^Vanada^ E»*lj ^Ite&SHfgggSnHI MAN. Prominently prevalent among Chronic Dis ease Is Nervous Debility, the most danger ous, insidious and fatal form of which is the hidden or Imperceptible passing away of the vital fluid through the excretions of body. Dr. Johannesen has given exclusive tention to such eases, and special courses pis Medicine are being forwarded to harts of tbe country dally. 1119 REMEDIES CURE Any Debility or Derangement of the Nerv is System, including bpennatthorea, Gon- Stricture Impotence, etc. ’-cular, descrip. to all sufferers rhea, Syphilis, Stricture Impotenc FREE—An explanatory circular, ve of Johannesen t method, to alls tive addressing HENRY VOULER, YO'B'VB.X. SAVED HIS LIFE. -js? DOXOLOGY OF JANIES O. BLAINE. Written for tbe Sumter Republican by A Physician’s Testimony. . WriHeniorme auwr I was catted to sea Mr. John Pearson, who the gentleman himself, waa eooflaed to bh bed with wkat appeared to I’m beaten, comrades, beaten, KM, BjprondMnMUon ftrt, the remedies, I finallr, a* al*»t resort, saot for Let thine arms, oh troops support a oottle of Brewers Luna Sdww, and it , acted Ittemacio..Hoege^wied the y ■»* 1 ’ 1 far mm time, and baa been folly reatom health. So far aai eoulddiaeover.be had asc-^^aKia?. Barnesville, Ga. I can go, like Hays, In office, If you’I raise a row. Let not Cleveland’s smile ruinous Mock the lion thus laid low. ’Twas no foeman’s arm that struck him, It was Borchard’s dealt tbe blow. * ids me ka taken with a severe.pain to From Macon. In August, 1981, it wae discovered that my son’s wife was to tbe last stares of ocosump- tlon. She was cooghln* Incessantly, and at times would discharge quantities of posfrom of time when life would be compelled to rtre way to the fell destroyer. After all other remedies had fulled, we cot Brewer’s Lung Re storer, and began tt in very small doses, as abe '— ry weak. She toon bermn to Improves led tbe remedy, and was restored to life ... --■»*- hrttcr than she Las restoration as Is Indebted to ’. BONNKRj^ b Lon* Restorer is' a purely reretable preparation, and contains no opium, morphing bromide, or any poisonous substance, bend lot circular of loo* list of wonderful cures. LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR, MACON, GA. inedtbereL and health; and ever been before. . nearly a miracle, for Fitters Hestetter's Stomach Bitters is a fine blood ipurent, a rational cathartic; and a superb ju-blllons specific. It rallies the falling energies of the debilitated, and checks mature decay. Fever and augue, bll remittent, dyspepsia and bowel complaints — among the evils which It entirely re ts. In tropical countries, where the liver and bowels are organs moet unfavora bly affected by the combined Influence of climate, diet and water, it Is a very necessa ry aafeguard. Fcr sale by all Druggists fly four bottles, and am nearly cured of inous Blood Poison.” J. M. Ellis, Atlanta, Ga., writea: I have had a severe form of Eczema ten years,and have failed to secure relief from various doctors, and about 14o bottles of a not blood remedy. It was pronounced locui ble, buttheuscof B.B. B. has effected cure, and I refer to C. P. Swift. Dr. D. O. G Heavy. Dr. F. F. TabeT. Atlanta ” W. M. Cheshire, at W. H. Brotherton’s Store Atlanta, writes: *‘I have bad a large eatingulcer on my leg cured by the use of It Is decidedly a most wonderful medicine for the cure of blood diseases, and it will please everybody. „ _ ”■ ” ” Dodge, Yard Master, of Ga. R. writes: * T—' itichresist*heVeatment of Physicians the use of all patent remedies, until she fewl —*- sod B.B B. A few bottles of this truly ■fnl blood medicine effected a cu ecrfully recommend It as a qul Kical blood purifier.” Sold by druggists at 91 or six for 93. Expressed THE FIELDS ARE WHITE WITH COTTON. HARD TIMES NEARLY OVER. A glorious harvest Is at hand, and pros* srity will soon prevail. Thousands of unifies who have been wanting Piano* and Organs for many long yean will BUY THIS DBPBLED OTO C01TBAETS HM nd laid in an immense stock of SUPERB NSTRCMENTS FROM TEN LEADING MAKERS, which wo shall offer on our usual easy Installment Terms. To accom modate those who wish to buy now, and hold their cotton until later, we make this SPECIAL OFFER TO PIANO AND OR GAN BUYERS. CASH PRICES, VIT9 3 HBITHS TIMS During the month* oj her and October, IS tdl Piano* and Organ* at our Ixncext Rock Bottom Oath Price*, requiring only $25 CASH D0f3 OK A PIANO. $10 CASH SOWN ON A OMAN. And allowing three month* time withe balance. Without Interest or advance of price. Tho*e who buy under this plan, and find themselves unable to wmpleto Payment after tbe three months, wUl be given further SWKWSM: stallment Terms of payment.. Should they a few weeks sbe was on. Her stomach re- e. Rbe continued the medlctoe. and Is now xeellent health, and to better than she has n to several years. I believe Brewer's Long uorer saved her life. If your guttering guard surrount Prompt to their master’s will, I shall yet become the ruler— Live the fraud triumphant stilt. Should theplebian rcbble Dare assail my fame down South, Where I roasted, doo < ed and damned them With my crater burning mouth Tell them—say ‘‘the foul rebellion Is our party shlboleth.” Thus you’I seal their lips in silence, " ider pain of instant death. A Strange Battle, It, and w today better tl been before. I regard her HOSIIFER’S DO YOU KNOW THAT LORILLARD’S CLIMAX PLUG TOBACCO, With Red Tin Tag, is the best? Is the pur est; Is never adulterated with glucose, barytes, molasses, or any deleterious ingre dients, as is tbe case with many other tobaccos Lorillard's Rose Leaf Fine Cat Tobacco is also made of the finest stock, and for a mafic chewing quality Is second to nont Lorillard’s Navy Clippings take first rank as a solid durable smoking tobacco wherever Introduced. Lorillard’s Famous Snuffs have been used to over 124 yerrs, and are sold to a larger extent than any others. Mim ir!a?«$rw«. ‘wSaSbcSmBS slTwS OGCONEECHEEANDTAR-HEEL SMOKING rr TOBACCOS rk«t, GIVE THEM A TRIAL. I. F. JONES dc CO., nuafscisi Mention this Paper. Sold at about half price. Stationery and School supplies. Z* T. STINE, 106 Centre SL Augusta, Ga •ADVERTISER**.—Lowest Rates for . - - ifree 10 Nothing but tbe wail of a child—i child 2 years old—sleep on the bed,and yet it broke out so suddenly, and it had such a long-drawn quiver in it that the mother started np with a scream. A stove, table, bed, two or three chairs—a homo in which a weak woman battling with sickness and poverty, only asking for the bare neceBBaries of life, and yet finding the battle going against her more and more as the days passed on. On this night there was a mouthful in that house to eat. hungry mouse could not have picked up ernst or crumb. The last bit of bread had been given to the child at dusk, and now aB it wailed out the mnother clasp' ed her hands and gasped: "If he wakes and cries for bread— what then ?” Well! What then ! It is only square to the river with its cool, dark current. She could say to the angels of Heaven*. "It was either that or starvation,” and they wonld not judge her too harshly. As she sat there with beating heart and anxious fears, the dim light making queer shadows dance abont the room,a low, fierce growl made her heart stand still. The door had not swung open, and yet a gaunt wolf had found its way into the room. It stood there with i* blood-shot eyes looking into hers—i red tongne lolling from its month and becks of foam falling to the floor. Its shaggy fur was stained and discolored —it* yellow fangs clashing and grind ing—s spectacle to have made a hun ter’s heart beat like a caged bird. It was the Wolf of Starvation—the fierce brute which never tires—which ii even on the hunt for the helpless and weak—which growls with delight as the wails of hanger and despair reach its It had scented its prey from afar, its fangs were sharpened to tend sar and devour. -a moment the mother's heart stood still and she gasped for breath. Then, as she realized tbe horror of the situation, she rose up and cried oat *Yoa have come to drink the blood my child ! I’ll fight you death 1” She had no weapon bat the thin hands which had toiled and ached for long years—no hopes but those born of a mother’s love and affection for her offspring, but she sprung at the gaunt, strong beast and the battle began. Despair gave her strength—love steel ed her heart. The beast retreated with fierce growls as she sprung toward to clutch him, and as she stood center of-the room she became a mag net round which he circled. Now he slowly circles to the right, his red eyes watching her bony fingers, they nervously work, and every hair his back standing up in anger. She ms slowly, always looking straight ;o bis eyes—ready to clutch at his throat when be springs. Now he halts and glares at her, growling, sniffing— flinging the flecks of foam to the right and left and grinding those horrible fangs. Now he circles to the lelf cringing, sknlking, crawling like a e pent—watching to find her off her guard. The child is aroused by the patter the beast’8 feet and the labored breath ing of the mother, and he ^^advertising in 9G3 good newspapers free Address GEO. P. ROWELL & Spruce Street, New York. Christmas IS NEAR AT HAND, AND WE ARE RE CEIVING A FULL STOCK OF CANDIES,; FRUITS, HUTS, CAN GOODS, RAISENS, FIRE WORKS, ETC., ETC. AND A FINE LOT OF LIQUORS and WINES, FINEST NEW ENGLAND RUM IN THE MARKET. CASE GOODS, ETC tSTGive us a call and we will save ” WYNN& WOOD. December, 3d, 1984. tc. J.T. STALLINGS DEALER IN CONFECTIONERIES, .Will be pleased to serve their friends and the public generally with anything in their ItSS-f warranted FRESH and ct SH A i^ TY ’ Given**trial, STALLINGS will haVe charge of Orttera.’ *** WU1 to pay one half the amount do* at thee months, or make a large cash payment, ar^equltobte price for the Instrument will arranged. All SrUl be treated fairly, and ehargSTprice* In accordance with tbe time required to pur- chace. All purchasers under this Special of fer are required to tigs our usual form aa to reference* are given. bept3. LUDDEN A BATES SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE. Xo Rent: My six mule plantation In good cultiva tion five mile* of Frestonand fifteen Dile* ■>f Americas. For terms, Ac., address jmminoarre DAVID S. TOUT*. IrtprltW. aax.TXMonx.xn. SITUATION WANTED. A young man of steady habit* desires to ob; aina situation either as clerk l~ — * leetor or In a factory. Has had tent witness of the scene. Ilia face whiter than snow—his eyes are big with terror—his heart chokes him. Now the beast springs. With a cry of rage and triumph he springs full his prey, and the woman’s hands clntch liia thrpat. They weave to and fro They stagger this way and that. Ilis yellow fangs graze her flesh and draw blood, and the foam-flecks are stained crimson. The child looks on with fascination born of horror. lie hears the clash of teeth as the jaws meet—he notes the fury of the vengeful eyes— his young heart seems to be stabbed the sight of his mother’s grim des pair. Such a battle! Such a prize if the gaunt, hungry beast succeeds—such victory if the strength of a fainting, despairing woman holds out to save tbe life of her child. With a cry to Heaven for aid, she calls np all her strength great effort and hurls the beast across the room. He is back again in a moment, and now he circles to the ight—now to the left—now—! A step on the stairs 1 The beast halts in his circling, his ears work nervously, and as the steps come near growl changts to a whine and he slinks into the darkness—away to space. The door is thrown open and Charity steps within, food ii They are Not Sorry. There is one thing nobody ever grets—that is, the day they first adopt ed Parker’s Tonic as their regular fami ly medicine. Its Tange is so wide, and ' ■ good effects so sore, that nothing 6e, extept good nnrsing, are needed great majority of caws. Bay, try and afterwards it will not require praise from as. It YOCMtt Ninon—READ THIS. thk Voltaic Belt Co., of Man Mich . offer to send their celebrated Elcb- tbo-Voltaic Belt and other Electric Ap pliances on trial for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous deblll- tr, loo* of vitality and manhood, and all kindred • roubles. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia-, paralysis; and many other dls- eases. Complete restoration to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risks ism- TABERNACLE -SERMONS. BV REV. T. DtlVITT TAL5IAGE. The Arch-FIci^d of Nations. Awake ye drunkards and weep and howl, all ye drinkers of wine-—Joal L 5. Noah did tho best and the worst thing lor the world. He built an ark against the deluge of water, but intro* duced a deluge against which tho hu man race has ever since been trying to boildanark—the deluge of drnnken- j. In the opening chapters of the Bible we hear 'his staggering .step. Shctn and Japhet tried to cover up the disgrace, but there he is, drunk on wine i a time in the history of the world hen, to say the least, there was no lack of water. Inebriation having en tered it has not retreated. Abigail,the fair and heroic wife who saved the flocks, of Nabal, her husband, from confiscation by invaders, goes home at night and finds him so intoxicated she cannot tell him the story his narrow escape. Uriah came to 6ee David and -David got bin drdnk and paved the way for the despoliation of a household. Even the church bishops needed to be charged to be sober and not given to too mnch wine, and so familiar were th< people of Bible times with tho stagger ing and falling motion of the inebriate that Isaiah, when he comes to describe the final dislocation of the world, says: The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard.” Ever since apples and grapes and wheat grew the world has been tempted to nnhealthful stimulants. Bat the intoxicants of the olden time innocent beverage, a harmless orangeade, a quiet syrup.a peaceful soda water as compared with the liquids of modem inebriation into which a mad ness and a fury and a gloom and a fire and a suicide and a retribution have mixed and mingled. Fermentation was always known, bnt it was not until a thousand yearB after Christ that dis tillation was invented. While wo mast confess that some of the ancient arts have been lost, the Christian era is su perior to all others in the bad eminence of whiskey and ram and gin. Tbe modern drank is a hundredfold worse than the ancient drank. Noah in his intoxication became imbecile, bnt tbe victims of modern alcoholism have to itrnggle with whole menageries of wild beasts and jangles of hissing serpants and perdictions of blaspheming de mons. An arch-fiend arrived in onr world and he bnilt an invisible caldron of temptation. He bnilt that caldron strong and stoat for all ages and all nations. First, be . squeezed into tbe caldron the jnices of the forbidden frnit of Paradise. Then he gathered for it a distillation from tbe harvest fields and the orchards oi the hemispheres. Then he poured into this caldron cap- sicium, and coperas, and logwood, and deadly nightshade, and assault and battery, and vitriol, and opium, and rum, and murder, and sulphuric acid, and theft, and potash, ana cochineal, and red carrots, and poverty, and death, and hops. Bnt It was a dry compound, the government. 1 tell yon all strong shall bo gone?” And how many moth- drink is crooked. Crooked otard, era there are waiting to see if this na- crooked cognac, crooked schnapps, tional curse cannot lift. Ob, is that crooked beer, crooked wine, crooked the boy that had the honest breath them at onee for trial Is allowed. Write dm TOtTa^fllir^rSe^STraTFto Side* Ginger, etc., and tt and it must be moistened, and it mast be liqaified, and so the arch-fiend poured into that caldron the tears of centuries of orphanage and widowhood, and he poured in the blood of twenty thousand assassinations. And then the arch-fiend took a shovel that he had brought up from the fnrnaces beneath, and he pat that shovel into the great caldron and began to stir, and the cal dron began to heave and rock, and boil and splatter, and hiss and smoke, and the nation gathered around it with raps and tankards and demijohns and kegs, and there was enough for all,and the arch-fiend criedj “Aha! Champion fiend am I. Who has done more than £ have for coffins and graveyards and prisons aud insane asylnms and the populating of the lost world ? And rhen this caldron is emptied I’ll fill it gain, and I’ll stir it again, and it will imoke again and that smoke will join another smoke, the smoke of a torment that ascendeth forever and ever. I drove fifty ships on the rocks of New foundland and the Skerries and the Godwins. I defeated the Northern army at Fredericksburg. I have ed more Senatera than will gather next winter in the national councils. I have rained more lords than will be gathered in the House of Peers. The enp out of which I ordinarily drink is a bleached hnman sknll, and the upholstery of my palace is so rich a crimson because it is dyed in hnman gore, and the ac of my floor is made np of the bones of children dashed to death by drnnken parens, and my favorite music—sweet er than the Te Denm or triumphal march—my favorite music is the cry of daughters turned out at midnight on the streee because father has come home from the carousal, and the bnndred-voiced shriek of the sinking- steamer because the captain w; himself when he pat the ship < wrong coarse. Champion fiend t have kindled more Ores, I have wrnng tore agonies, 1 have stretched oot midnight shadows, I have opened Golgothos, I have rolled jnggernannts, I have damned souls than any other ot diabolism. Champion fiend am I!” Drunkenness is the greatest evil of this cation, and it takes no logical process to prove to this audience that a drnnken nation cannot long be a free nation. So I go on in this brief series of Sabbath morning discourses, show ing yon the perils that threaten the de struction of American institutes. 1 time to conclude these subjects last Sabbath morning, and I shall go <»n this Sabbath morning and the fol lowing at least, discussing these sub jects. I call yonr attention to the fact that drunkenness is not subsiding, certainly that it is not at a standstill, bnt that it on an onward march and it is a doable-quick. Beginning near-by, I have seen more drnnken people in Brooklyn and New York in the last six weeks than in any two years of m/ life, and so have yon, it yon have been passing np and down these streets much. There is more ram swallowed in this country, and of a worse kind, than ever was swallowed since the first distillery began its work of death. Where there was one drnnken home there are ten drnnken homes. Where there was one dronkard’s grave there twenty drankard’e graves. Ac cording to the United Spates govern ment figures, 1840 there were 23,000,- 000 gallons of beer sold. Last year iheie were 551,000,000 gallons. Ac cording to the governmental figures ii the year 1840 there were 5,000,000 gallons of wine sold. Last year there were 25,000,000 gallons of wine. It is on the increase. Talk abont crooked whi-key—by which men mean the whitkey that does not pay the whiskey, because it makes a man’s who comes home with breath vitiated path crooked and his life crooked, and or disguised? Oh, wbat a change.— his death crooked, and his eternity How qnickly those habits of early crooked. If I conld gather all the ar- coming home have been exchanged for mies of the dead drunkards and have the rattling of the night-key in the them come to resurrection, and then add door after the last watchman has gone to that host all the armies of living by and tried to see that every thing w drunkards, five or ten abreast,-and closed up for the night. Ob, what then if I conld have yon mount a horse change for that young man who and ride along «ihat line for review, had hoped wonld do something in i you would ride that horse until he chandise, or in artisanship. or in pro- dropped from exhaustion, amt yon tesrion that would do honor to the would mount another horse and ride family notnc long after mother’) until he fell from exhaustion, and you kled hands are folded from the last wonld take another and another and toil. All that exchanged for another and you would ride along hour tied look when the doorbell rings, lest after hour, day alter day. Great host, something has happened, and the wish regiments, in brigades; great armies of that the scarlet fever twenty years ago them, and then if you had voice enough had been fatal, for then he would have Stentorian to make them all bear, and gone directly to the bosom of his Sa- yon conld give the command, ‘‘forward vionr. Bnt alas! poor old soul, shi march” their first tramp wonld make has lived to experience what Solomon the earth tremble. I do not care which said: “A foolish son ie the heaviness way yon look in community to-day, of his mother,” Oh, what a funeral it the evil is increasing. I call your at- will be when that boy is brought home tentiou to the fact that there are thou- dead, and.how mother will ait_ there sands of people born with a thirst for and say: "Is this the boy that I used stong drink—a fact too often ignored, to fondle and that I walked the floor Along some ancestral lines there runs with at when he was sick? Is the the river of temptation. There are boy that I held in the baptismal font children whoso swaddling clothes are for baptism? Is this the boy for whom torn off the shroud of death. Many a I toiled until the blood burst from tho father has made a will of this sort: "In tips of my fingers that he might have the name of God, amen. I bequeath a good start and a good home? Lord to my children my houses and lands why hast thou let me live to see this? and estates, share and share shall they Can it be that these swollen honda alike. Hereto I affix my hand seal in ihe ones that used to wander tho presence of witnesses.” And yet, face when rocking him to sleep ? Can perhaps that very man has made an- it be that this is the swollen brow that other will that people have never read, I once so rapturously kissed? Poor and that have not been proved in the boy! How tired he does look. I won- courts. That will, pat in writing, der who strnck him that blow across would read something like this: “In the temple. I wander if he uttered the name of disease and appetite and dying prayer. Wake up, my son.— death, amen. I bequeath to my chil- Wake np, my son. Don’t yon hear dren my evil habits, my tankards shall me? Wake np. Oh, he can’t hear be theirs, my winecnp shall be theirs, me. Dead, dead, dead ! ‘Oh, Abso my destroyed reputation shall be theirs, lom, my son, wonld to God that I had Share and share alike shall they in the died for thee! Oh Absolom, my son, infamy. Hereto I affix my hand and my son!” lam not mnch of a mathe seal in the presence of the applauding matician and I cannot estimate it; bnt harpies of hell.” From the mnltitnde is there any one here qnick enough at i who have the evil habit bora fignreB to estimate how many mothers with them, this army is being aug' there aro waiting for something ' mented. And I am sorry to say that done? Aye there are many great many of the drngstores are waiting for domestic rescue. He proi abetting this evil, and alcohol is sold ised something different from that when under the name of bitters. It is bitters after the long acquaintance and the for this, bitters for that and bitters for carefnl scrutiny of character, the heart some other thing, and good men de- and tbe band were offered and accep- ceived, not knowing there is and thral- ted. What a hell on earth a woman dom of alcoholism coming from that lives in who has a drnnken husband! souree, are going down, and some day Oh, death, how lovely thon art to her sits with the bottle of black and how soft and warm thy skeleton bitters on his table, and the cork flie3 hand. Tbe sepnlchre at midnight * out, and after it flies a fiend and clntch- winter is a King’s drawing rooi i the man by the throat, and says: pared with that woman’s home. Aha ! I have been after you for ten not so much the blow on the head that years. I have got yon now. Down hurts as tbe blow on the heart. The with you, down with yon !” Bitters ! ram fiend came to the door of that Ah, yes. They make a man’s family beantiful home and opened the door bitter, and his home bitter, and his and 6tood there and said: "I curse thii disposition bitter, and his death bitter, dwelling with an unrelenting curse, and his hell b'tter. Bitters ! A vast enrse that father into a maniac, I army all the time increasing. And let enrse that mother into a pauper. I me rIbo say that it is as thoroughly those sons into vagabonds. I organized as any army,, with coalman- those daughters into profligacy. Unrs- der-in-chief, staff officers, infantry, ed be bread-tray and cradle. Cursed calvary, batteries, sntlerships and flam- be conch and chair and family Bible ing ensigns, and that every candi late with record of marriages and births for office in America will yet have to and deaths. Curse upon corse.” Oh pronounce himself the friend or foe of how many wives therewaitlng to see the liquor traffic. I have in my pos- if something cannot be done to shake session a circular of a brewers* associ- these frosts of the second death from ation, a circular sent to all candidates the orange blossomB. Yea, God ia for office—it has been sent or will be waiting, the God who works throngh sent—and a form to be filled up saying hnman instrumentalities, waiting to whether the candidate is a friend to the see whether this nation is going to liquor traffic or its enemy, and if he is overthrow tnis evil, and if it refuse i enemy of the business then the man do so God will wipe oat the nation doomed, or if he declines to fill np he did Phoenicia, as he did Rome, the circnlar and send it back, his silence did Rome, as he did Thebes, as he did taken as a negative answer. It Babylon. Aye, he is waiting seems to me it is about time for the what the church of God will 17,000,000 professors of religion in the church does not do its work, then * -*-» to take sides. It is going to he will wipe it out as he did the church at and ont battle between drank- of Ephesus, church of Thyalira, church and sobriety, between heaven of Sardis. The Protestant and Ro- an;\ hell, between God and the evil, man Catholic churches to-day stand take sides btfore there is any further side by side with an impotent look national decadence; take sides before gazing on this evil which costs th* yonr sons are sacrificed and the new country more than one billion dollars home of your daughter goes down nn- year to take care of 800,000 paupers der the alcoholism of an embrnted and the 315,000 criminals, and the 30,- hnsband. Take sides while yonr voice, 000 idiots and to bury the 75,000 your pen, your prayer, your vote may drunkards. Protagoras boasted that have any influence in arresting the de- oat of the sixty years of his life, forty ipoliation of this nation. If the 17.- years he had spent in raining yonth; 000,000 professors of religion should bnt the arch-fiend of the nations may take sides on this subject, it wonld not make the more infamous boaBt that all be very long before the destiny of this its life has been spent in raining the rat down this evil if all the churches 3od, transatlantic and cisatlantio were aroused on this subject. Of course, not the province of the sermon I this morning to dwell so mnch as I shall hereafter npon the way* to con- id against these neat national ceils, 11 shall not let the opportunity pass this discourse, whether it is logically part of it or not—I shall not let this voters of America,bn the first1 day in November, tc go from yonr knees to the ballot-box, and then from the ballot-box to yonr knees. Atfr.. God what to do. He will make it plain. Do not ask yonr political party. Vote with reference to that day when yon mast give an aooonnt. Young men of Americn, pass over into the anny of tectotalism. Whiskey, good to pie- serve corpses, ought never to turn yon into a corpse. Tens of thousands of young men have been dragged ont of respectability, and ont of parity, and out of good character, and into dark ness by this infernal stuff called strong < d rink. Do not touch it. Do not touch it. In the front door of this chnrch summer before last this soene occurred: Sabbath morning a young man was en tering here for divine worship. A friend passing along the street said: i, come along with me, I am going down to Coney Island, and we’ll have gay Sunday.” "No,” replied Joe. nation wonld be decided in the right bodies, minds and* sonls of the human direction. Certainly sermons setting forth the perils that threaten the de- Put on your’8 spectacles and take struction of onr American institutions candle aud examine theplatform of the wonld be a very poorly planned course leading political parties of this coun- of sermons if they did not speak of try and Bee what tliev are doing for the drunkenness. Is it a State evil, or is arrest of this avil and' for tho overthrow national evil ? Does it belong to of this abomination. Resolutions, oh the North, or does it belong to the yes, resolutions about Mormonism South ? Does it belong to the East or is safe to attack that organized does it belong to tho .West? Ah! ness2,000 miles away, there is not an American river into resolution against drunkenness, which which its tears have not fallen and into wonld turn this entire nation into which its suicides have not plnnged. bestial Salt Lake City. Resolutions What mined that Southern plantation, against political corruption, bnt not every field a fortune, the proprietor and one word abont drunkenness, which his family the most affluent supporters wonld rot this nation from scalp to of summer watering places. What heel. Resolutions about protect! threw that New England farm into de- against competition with foreign indns- cay, and turned the roseate cheeks tries, let not one word abont protection that bloomed at the foot of the Green of family and chnrch and nation Mountain into the pallor of despair? against the scalding, blasting, all-i What has smitten every street of every .suming, damning tariff of strong driul village, town and city of this conti- put upon euery financial interest. The nent with a moral pestilence ? What Democratic Party in power for the will send thousands of men on thefitst most of tbe time for forty years. Wbat Tuesday in November to the ballot did that national party do for the ex box, manddlin, incompetent, filthy and tirpation of this evil? Nothing abso- blasphemous ? Strong drink. To prove lately nothing, appallingly nothing.— that this is a national evil 1 call up The Republican Party has been three States in opposite directions— power for abont a quarter of a century. Maine, Iowa and Georgia. Let them What has it done as a national party testify in regard to this. State of to extirpate this exil? Nothing, agso- Maine says: "It is so great an evil lately nothing, appallingly nothing. I np here that we have anatham&tized it look in another direction. The Chnrch as a State.” State of Iowa says: “It of God is the grandest and^ most glo- his any time. The day is bright and we’ll go to Coney Island and we’U have a splendid time.” The temptation was too great, and the twain went to the beach, spent the day in drunkenness and riot. The evening train started np from Brighton. The young men were on it. Joe in his intoxication, when the train was in fall speed, tried to pass around from one seat to another and fell and was crushed. Under the lan- u, as Joe lay bleeding his life away the grass, he said to his comrade. 'John, that was a bad business, yonr taking me away from chnrch; it was a very bad business. Yon onght not to have done that. John. I want yon to tell the boys tomorrow when yon see them that ram «nd Sabbath-breaking' did this for me. And, John, while yon are telling them I will be ia bell ana it will be your fault.” Is it not time for me to pnll ont from the great organ of God’s Word with many banks of keys this tremolo stop, "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright, when it giveth its color in the cap, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like r an adder?” Aye, is it not time for me to pnll ont the trumpet stop of the text? "Awake, ye drunkards, and weep and howl, all ye drinkers of wine.” MERIT WILL TELL. BUY THE genuine article and do not expend yonr means on vile trash. Shriner’s In dian Vermifuge is guaranteed if taken according to the direstiona. SHERMAN AND DAVIS. Washington, December 14—The Washington Po*t this morning prints the following letter from Senator Vance, with reference to the Sherman-Davis controversy: To the editor of the Po*t: As sev eral newspaper reporters have been in terrogating me with reference to the letter mentioned by Gen. Sherman aa having been written by President Da vis to a Southern Senator threatening the coercion of any State that would at tempt to leave tbe Confederacy, and as all of the reports of my replies—that of your reporter especially-—were more or less inaccurate, I have thought it best speak for myself. Every letter ever written to me on political topics by President Davis ia to be fonnd faithfully copied on tha of ficial letter-book of the executive de partment of North Carolina. The*e letter-books were taken from me by Gen. Sherman’s troops at the close of the war, and are now in the possession of the War Department in this city. Aside from the letter-books, General Sherman never saw any letter address ed to me by President Davis. Althongh I have not seen these books and read their contents in almost twenty years, quite snre that no each letter can be fonnd there. 1 conld not have for gotten such a letter had it been receiv ed by me. The suggestion, therefore, that I am the person teferred to in Gen. Sherman’s statement i*> entirely nntrne. The attempts of some newspapers to give probability to this snggeBtion by alleging that I was in bitter hostility whilst Governor of North Carolina to tbe administration of Mr. Davis ia based also npon a misrepresentation of the facts. It is well known by those acquainted with the history of thote times, that ray differences with Mr. Davis were-purely in regard to matters of dalail.and thatl snppoited him in all his efforts to maintain the Confederacy with all the zeal that I conld command and all the power of the State which I conld bring to bear. This Mr. Davis* t Jettera all show. To tbe letter of mine to Mr. Davis of the 25th of October, 1862, the New York Tribune’* corres pondent saya no copy of any reply can be fonnd, and suggested that probably the statement to which Gen. Sherman refers is contained in it. Certainly no effort was made to find that letter. It is npon the letter-book, dated Novem ber 1st, 1862. It has been widely published, and contains no such ex pression as a threat against a State at tempting to secede from the confedera- greal an evil - ont here we have rions institution on earth. What prohibited it by constitntianal amend- it in solid phalanx accomplished for the meat.” State of Georgia says: "It is overthrow of drunkenness? Have its so great an evil down here that ninety forces ever been marshalled? No, not counties oot of the State have made in this direction. Not long ago,a great the sale of intoxicating drink a crimi- ecclesiastical court assembled in New nality.” So the word comes up from York and resolutions arraigning strong all sources and it is going to be a Wa- drink were offered, and clergymen with terloo and I want yon to know on strong drink on their tables and strong what side I going to be when that Wa- drink in their cellars, defeated there- terloo is folly come; and I want yon to eolations by threatening speeches, on the right side. Eeither drnnken- They could not bear to give up their •» will be destroyed in the country, own lasts. I tell this audience wha* the American government will be many of yon may never have though* destroyed, Drunkenness and free in- of, that to-day, not in the millenninm, siitntions are coming into a death- bnt to day the chnrch holds the balance grapple. Ob, how many are waiting of power in America, and if Christian to see if something cannot be done.— people, the men and the women who Thousands of drunkards waiting who profess to love the Lord Jesns Christ cannot go ten minutes in any direction and to love parity and to be the sworn without having the temptation glaring enemies of all uncleanness and de- before their eyes or appealing to their banchery and sin—if all snch world nostrils try fighsing against it with en- march side by side and shoulder to feebled will and diseased appetite, con- shoulder, this evil would soon bo cver- qnering, then surrendering; conquering thrown. Think of 300*000 churches again and surrendering agam, and cry- and Sunday schools in Christendom ing, "How long, oh, Lord,' how long marching shoulder to shoulder! How before these infamous solicitations 1 very short a time it would take them Glass House. The wicked fleeth when no man pursue th.” It is amusing to see how tender-foot ed certain blood remedy proprietors have become of late. They make mnch ado abont "apes and imitators,” when -->ne are in sight. Tbe proprietors of B. B. B. wonld say most emphatically that their reme dy stands npon its own merit. Should we attempt to imitate, it wonld not be those who do not understand the modns operandi of that which they offer. Onr own long experience in the profession preolndes such an idea. The field lor blood remedies is large and broad af fording ample loom for all present as pirant*. We do not desire to close the door against others, neither .-hall it be closed against ns. B. B. B. is the quick est remedy, does not contain mineral or vegetable poison, does not imitate, and

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, December 19, 1884, Image 1